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What Is the Remedy for Our Struggle Between Good and Evil?

What Is the Remedy for Our Struggle Between Good and Evil?

Last updated on: July 9, 2025 at 8:11 am by Jocelyn Soriano

What Is the Remedy for Our Struggle Between Good and Evil? 2025-06-25T13:12:45+08:00 Jocelyn Soriano

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What Is the Remedy for Our Struggle Between Good and Evil

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I would like to think that every person wants to do what is right. Created in God’s image, this desire is embedded deeply into our being. We want to be good, kind, loving and true. But the fall of this world into sin has made it very difficult for us. Although this desire for goodness was never lost, it has been covered by so much darkness. Our weaknesses keep us from fulfilling this God-given desire.

What happens is that many people get lost in other things. In search of something that has long been forgotten, one indulges in every pleasure one can find on earth. Thus, we start our pursuit of wealth, fame and power. We wander far and wide trying to fill the emptiness in our souls only to feel ever more devoid of light in the end.

Even Christians who sincerely desire to fulfill God’s commandments often falter. St. Paul couldn’t have said it better when he shared his personal struggle with sin:

“For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want. Now if [I] do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand. For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self, but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin.” – Romans 7:19-25 NABRE

It is very important therefore to first recognize our weaknesses. After this, we must seek the only remedy, who is Jesus Christ, our Lord!

Jesus gives us the grace we need to overcome our struggle with sin. Through many ways and means, He provides for us that we may not fall, and even if we do, that we may rise again and continue walking on the right path.

Our primary attention should be on the way that Jesus laid out for us. The way that may not always be smooth or easy, but that will never lead us astray.

Mother Teresa has this to say about the importance of seeking God each day:

“Never give up this daily intimate contact with Jesus as the real living person—not just the idea. How can we last even one day without hearing Jesus say ‘I love you’—impossible. Our soul needs that as much as the body needs to breathe the air. If not, prayer is dead—meditation, only thinking. Jesus wants you each to hear Him—speaking in the silence of your heart.”

Jesus is the Way! Let us draw nearer to His heart and begin each day by allowing Him to fill our hearts with love.

Jocelyn Soriano is the author of 366 Days of Compassion. You may want to start your day by reading this devotional book to inspire you and lead you to prayer.

Where is God? God is with us, but we often do not know where to look and so we do not see. God is there, pursuing us, waiting for us to take the time to call on Him in our helplessness, in the routine of our daily lives. He is the one who will fill our lives with meaning and our hearts with hope and love.

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You may also want to read “Why Does God Allow Us To Fall Into Sin?”

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About Jocelyn Soriano

Jocelyn Soriano is an author, poet, and book reviewer. She is an introvert who enjoys a cup of coffee and listening to the cello ****** while working.

She wrote the books To Love an Invisible God, Defending My Catholic Faith and Mend My Broken Heart. She also wrote books on poetry including Poems of Love and Letting Go and Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief. She has published more than 15 books and developed her own Android applications including God’s Promises and Catholic Answers and Apologetics.

She writes about relationships and common questions about God and the Catholic faith at Single Catholic Writer. She is currently single and happy and she would like everyone to know how happy we can be by drawing close to the love of God!

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